Allman offers help in SoCal manhunt

Mendocino County Sheriff Tom Allman has offered help in the hunt in Southern California for a former LA police officer who is hiding in the wilderness outside Los Angeles.

Sheriff Tom Allman has offered Mendocino County K-9 "Red" to Los Angeles authorities to help in the search for the gunman on the loose down there.

"The circumstances are so similar" Allman said this morning, (referring to the month-long search for Aaron Bassler here in Mendocino County) adding that he was about to go on National Public Radio in Los Angeles about the Bassler case and what we learned from it about manhunts.

According to the LA Daily News, the manhunt continues today in the snowy, windy San Bernardino Mountains for fired LAPD Officer Christopher Dorner, who is suspected of killing an Irvine couple and a Riverside police officer in a vendetta against his former department.

Law enforcement in several cities checked out reported sightings of people resembling 33-year-old Dorner, but all of the reports, so far, have been unfounded.

San Diego County sheriff's deputies were still at the Barona Indian Reservation early Friday morning after a caller reported seeing Dorner at a residence around 10:15 p.m. Thursday. The report appeared to be false.

"They're having difficulty verifying the legitimacy of the sighting," San Diego County Sheriff's Lt. Jason Rothlein said.

Ontario police received a call at 12:30 a.m. this morning from a guest at the Hyatt Place Ontario/Rancho Cucamonga on Mills Circle who claimed to have spotted Dorner.

"It turned out it was one of their employees that looked similar, but it wasn't him," said Ontario police Sgt. Mark Guski.

Sheriff's deputies in Rancho Cucamonga received three or four calls from people who thought they saw Dorner driving on the 210 Freeway between 6 and 7 p.m. Thursday, but none of those drivers were Dorner.

Sheriff's officials have said the search for Dorner in the mountains will continue as long as weather permits.

Dorner was named as a suspect in the Feb. 3 fatal shootings of Walnut High School Hall of Fame member Monica Quan, 28, and her fiance, 27-year-old Keith Lawrence in Irvine.

According to Riverside police, Dorner shot two officers stopped at a light on Thursday. One was killed while the other was injured.

Dorner was fired from the LAPD in 2008 for making false statements related to a 2007 complaint he filed against his training sergeant.

Dorner lost his appeal to overturn his firing.

In an online manifesto he penned, Dorner spelled out his grievances against the LAPD, said he will bring "unconventional and asymmetrical warfare" to LAPD officers plus threatened to go after certain officers and their families. He claimed he wants his name cleared publicly.